World Surf League Chief Strategy and Brand Officer lambasts political right in scorched earth screed: “The number of conservative, whining, f*cking fascists in the surfing world, some of which hold esteemed positions in companies and on Olympic teams, is pathetic!”

The right is right and the left is right. And the right is also wrong as is the left. Fuck politics and politicians and political action committees and lobbyists and ideologues and people who are so sold on their own position and lack any semblance of willingness/ability to see that the world and all that exists therein is nothing but nuance. If one can’t argue convincingly from the opposing position’s standpoint, he/she should be totally disregarded. Just the one and a half cents from a severely depressed twice divorced father of three who used to surf pretty decently but now couldn’t care less but is so sick of the fucking partisan back and forth between those who for the life and death of them couldn’t and wouldn’t be caught dead articulating the opposing point of view from a sincere and heartfelt perspective based on the fact that we were all once clueless completely dependent little boys and girls who knew nothing but mommy and daddy (if we were lucky), eating and drinking, pooping and pee peeing and playing with blocks and dolls and toy cars and GI Joes and whatever the fuck else. As an aside, I used to on the sly pick up half smoked ciggies on the streets on NYC As a kid in the 80s when I’d be up there visiting my mom from Florida as a kid. I’d collect them shits like Easter eggs and smoke em on the roof of our loft on Park and as 25th back when there was an armory (whatever the fuck that was…I just remember there were tennis courts inside and I liked tennis) across the street that housed homeless people commonly referred to as bums back then before PC was a thing and the bums or sorry the homeless people mainly men who were disproportionately black ops I mean African American would shit in the street on 25th street like it was nothing. All that to say, it would be vastly more interesting if Otto and John’s Knee and any right winger neo con climate change denying MAGA hat wearing Reaganomic nazis and tree hugging woke Cis gender (what the actual fuck is that anyway? Too lazy and apathetic to google) libtard cuck and whatever other pejorative terms the right calls you would switch positions and argue from the opposing point of view vis a vie John’s Knee arguing from the right and Otto from the left. In my admittedly flawed disease addled brain that would be very much worth tuning in for. The status quo politically is just oh so tedious and unimaginative. Rant over and out.

That’s the best statement ever made from the wsl since they changed their name. Congrats to dave p.
Now let’s get to work on the rebranding.

They always had booze and drugs tho.

Can’t we all get along? Love your neighbor. Be a good steward of your surroundings. Honor your elders. Prodan has a heavy burden being that he has his voice put out to the public. He does come off as someone that thinks that woke intelligence = wisdom sometimes though. Kids today think that all this stuff is new and unprecedented but it’s just another page in the book. We are loosing our connection to history so each generation is learning less from the past.

The image of Tommy Smith and Peter Norman fist raised post their run on gold and silver always provoke a positive form of rebellion in me. As does man holding grocery bag in front of large tank stopping its forward movement. Who’s to say Tyler’s image doesn’t evoke the same feeling in someone? However I do think it looses its value when packaged and sold as decisive moment in some form of new era for women’s surfing.
Miss Kennelly example speaks to me more, face bleeding in Tahitian reef pass, her preference has been out for decade longer. Or maybe I should have the utmost respect for any women battling for waves in line ups with consequence competing with overly selfish men.

well you don’t really ‘pay’ to watch surfing comps do ya…